Melon held the phone against his ear, listening attentively, as the man on the other end spoke. When the man finally finished speaking, the boy seized his chance.

“I’m sorry, sir, but my mother can’t come to the phone right now,” he piped up politely in his young voice.

“May I ask who’s calling?”

Only silence greeted his query. Melon waited several long moments, but the man didn’t say anything. Thinking that the call had been dropped, he said in a tentative tone, “Hello?”

Just as he was about to take the phone away from his ear, the man spoke again, his voice unexpectedly soft, “Is. is that you, Max?”

Melon’s brows furrowed, his confusion evident.

“Who are you? Why do you know my name?” As he said that, he quickly glanced down at the phone’s screen to see whether he knew the digits or not. But it offered no identifying details.

silence was

boy’s patience started waning, and

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before the boy ended the call, the man found

stopped his movement midway. Now, it was he who was stunned and

him, the boy subconsciously turned away and cried out,

rushed over. She took the phone from his

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He gave a nonchalant shrug before scratching his head, clearly

the number of men claiming to

her son’s charming comment, Ariana couldn’t

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